Category : National Post

TweetCanada’s commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is as much about principle as practicality. Although Canadian emissions represent just 1.6% of the global total, we remain among the world’s top 10 emitters and have a particularly high rate on a per capita basis. There is also a moral argument that ...

TweetA book describing the evolution of modern art through conflicts between major painters will stir the interest of anyone who cares about Cubism, Abstract Expressionism and all the other isms. Sebastian Smee, the much-admired art critic of the Boston Globe, sets out to win our attention and our hearts with ...

TweetMany Ontarians are seething over the high cost of their hydro bills – and with good reason. I suspect they would be even madder if Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall demanded a carbon tax be added, if he is compelled to levy one in his own province. This wouldn’t be a ...

TweetHyper-inflated faces. Blowfish lips. Forehead nodules. As the popularity of wrinkle fillers soars, a flurry of scientific papers are warning of serious complications that can occur, from “overcorrections” – when too much product is injected into the midface – to infections, abscesses, necrosis (death) of tissue, blindness and stroke. Reporting ...

TweetCanada has to pay $28 million in damages and legal costs to a company that wanted to build a wind farm in Lake Ontario but whose plans were abruptly halted by the Ontario government in 2011, an international tribunal says. Windstream Energy, whose plans were backed by American investors, filed ...

TweetCarbon pricing is becoming a mainstream part of Canadian policy. Four provinces have or will soon have carbon prices, one more has made a commitment to do so, and the federal government is now promising to fill in the gaps. The emergence of a nation-wide carbon price signals that the ...

TweetTORONTO – Costco is aggressively stepping up its expansion in Canada after years of strong success in this market, a move likely to put even more of a squeeze on traditional grocers such as Loblaw and Sobeys. The U.S. warehouse club giant, which has annual sales of close to $21 ...

TweetThe Port of Montreal requires hard hats for all workers on its property. Three Sikh truck drivers who perform regular pickups at the port have a religious conviction that forbids putting anything on their head except a five-to-six metre length of wrapped cotton. And last week, in a court decision ...

TweetThe first U.S. Presidential debate of 2016 is live right now! Join us for the fully streamed debate above and live commentary below. The presidential candidates have arrived at Hofstra University in New York and have started their first face-to-face debate. The stakes are high. Clinton and Trump are close ...